Sharon Lerner - Type Investigations https://www.typeinvestigations.org/reporter/sharonlerner/ A Newsroom for Independent Journalists Mon, 10 Jan 2022 08:04:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-ti-favicon-32x32.png Sharon Lerner - Type Investigations https://www.typeinvestigations.org/reporter/sharonlerner/ 32 32 How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2020/01/29/how-the-environmental-lawyer-who-won-a-massive-judgment-against-chevron-lost-everything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-environmental-lawyer-who-won-a-massive-judgment-against-chevron-lost-everything Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:40:58 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=20647 Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron in Ecuador. The company sued him in New York, and now he’s under house arrest.

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]]> Industry Cites 3M Experiment That Exposed Cancer Patients to PFAS to Claim the Chemicals Aren’t So Bad. https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/08/12/industry-cites-3m-experiment-that-exposed-cancer-patients-to-pfas-to-claim-the-chemicals-arent-so-bad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=industry-cites-3m-experiment-that-exposed-cancer-patients-to-pfas-to-claim-the-chemicals-arent-so-bad Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:35:35 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19881 The 3M-funded study is at odds with extensive scientific literature based on large populations of people who had been exposed to PFAS for years.

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]]> Waste Only https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2019/07/20/how-the-plastics-industry-is-fighting-to-keep-polluting-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-plastics-industry-is-fighting-to-keep-polluting-the-world Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:08:50 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=19741 How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world.

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]]> EPA Move to Phase Out Animal Experiments Could Mean the End of Toxics Regulations https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/07/03/epa-move-to-phase-out-animal-experiments-could-mean-the-end-of-toxics-regulations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epa-move-to-phase-out-animal-experiments-could-mean-the-end-of-toxics-regulations Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:46:08 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19712 The chemical industry’s and the Trump EPA’s eagerness to phase out experimental testing on lab animals appears to be a sneak attack on chemical regulation.

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]]> Teflon Toxin Safety Level Should be 700 Times Lower Than Current EPA Guideline https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/06/18/pfoa-teflon-toxin-safety-level-should-be-700-times-lower-than-current-epa-guideline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pfoa-teflon-toxin-safety-level-should-be-700-times-lower-than-current-epa-guideline Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:36:32 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19681 New data suggests that the safety threshold for PFOA in drinking water should be as low as .1 parts per trillion, according to the nation’s top toxicologist.

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]]> 3M Knew About PFAS Food Contamination in 2001 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/06/12/3m-knew-about-pfas-food-contamination-in-2001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3m-knew-about-pfas-food-contamination-in-2001 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:03:26 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19659 3M, the company that originally developed PFOS and PFOA, has known for a very long time that these toxic and persistent chemicals were in our food.

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]]> Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found in Maine Farms Fertilized with Sewage Sludge https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/06/07/fda-toxic-pfas-chemicals-found-in-maine-farms-fertilized-with-sewage-sludge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fda-toxic-pfas-chemicals-found-in-maine-farms-fertilized-with-sewage-sludge Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:05:26 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19623 The evidence of widespread sludge contamination comes just days after a Food and Drug Administration study revealed that PFAS chemicals were also found in food.

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]]> Air Pollution Crisis Exposes More Environmental Racism in Illinois https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/05/07/air-pollution-crisis-exposes-more-environmental-racism-in-illinois-wendy-abrams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=air-pollution-crisis-exposes-more-environmental-racism-in-illinois-wendy-abrams Tue, 07 May 2019 19:17:32 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19529 In an uncomfortable turn of events, Wendy Abrams finds herself on the other side of an environmental crisis — affiliated with the polluter, rather than fighting on behalf of the polluted.

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]]> High Levels of Toxic PFAS Chemicals Pollute Breast Milk Around the World https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/04/30/high-levels-of-toxic-pfas-chemicals-pollute-breast-milk-around-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-levels-of-toxic-pfas-chemicals-pollute-breast-milk-around-the-world Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:58:51 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19511 Decades after Dupont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes could be transmitted from mothers to babies, millions of women around the world are passing dangerous amounts of these toxic compounds to their children, according to a reportpublished on Monday.

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]]> Brazil’s Pesticide Industry is Creating Massive PFOS Contamination https://www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2019/04/29/brazil-pesticide-industry-is-creating-massive-pfos-contamination-environment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazil-pesticide-industry-is-creating-massive-pfos-contamination-environment Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:44:17 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?p=19504 While much of the world struggles to clean up contamination from the toxic industrial compound PFOS, Brazil is still adding to the massive environmental mess with its large-scale production, use, and export of sulfluramid, a pesticide that degrades into PFOS.

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